1 ¶ Follow my example, even as I also follow Christ.

2 Now I praise you, brethren, for remembering me in all things, and holding firmly to the teachings, just as I taught them to you.

3 But I want you to realize, that Christ is the head of every man; but the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

4 Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered, dishonors his head.

5 But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head: just as though her head were shaved.

6 For if a woman does not cover her head, let her also have her hair cut off: but if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off, she should cover her head.

7 A man ought not to cover his head, since he is God’s image and glory: while the woman is man’s glory.

8 For man did not come from woman; but woman from man.

9 Neither was man created for woman; but woman for man.

10 For this reason the woman ought to have authority over her head because of the angels.

11 Nevertheless, in the Lord, the man is not without the woman, nor is the woman without the man.

12 For as the woman came from man, so also man is born of woman; and this all is of God.

13 Decide for yourselves: is it fitting for a woman pray to God with her head uncovered?

14 Doesn’t nature itself teach you, that, if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him?

15 But if a woman has long hair, it is to her glory: because her long hair is given to her for a covering.

16 But if any man wants to be argumentative about this, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.

17 ¶ But in what I now have to say, I have no praise for you, because when you meet together it is not for the better, but for the worse.

18 In the first place, when you gather together as a congregation, I am told that there are divisions among you; and to some extent I believe it.

19 For there must also be heresies among you, to reveal those who are approved by God.

20 Therefore when you gather together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord’s supper.

21 For each one eats his own supper in front of the others: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

22 Don’t you have homes to eat and drink in? or do you despise the church of God, and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? Certainly not.

23 ¶ For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:

24 And after giving thanks, he broke it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: do this in remembrance of me.

25 In the same way he also took the cup, after he had eaten, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.

26 For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you are solemnly proclaiming the Lord’s death until he comes.

27 Therefore whoever eats the bread, and drinks the cup of the Lord, unworthily, will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

28 But let a man examine himself, then let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

29 For he who eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks damnation to himself, because he does not recognize the Lord’s body as the atonement for his sin.

30 That is why many among you are weak and sickly, and many sleep.

31 For if we would judge ourselves acknowledging our sin, we would not be judged.

32 But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, so that we will not be condemned with the world.

33 Therefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for the others.

34 And if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home; so that when you come together it will not result in condemnation. And I will set the rest in order when I come.